She selects me... I was walking down the street in Rouen (Ouest Normandy) when I saw her through a shop window, this kind of 'boutique' where you can find WWII things. She was there laying between helmets and some stuff, 'a Tokai I can't beleive it!'. So I came in the shop and asked for the price. An old lady answered me that the guitar was there as ornemental piece to brighten up the window and to celebrate the US landing in 1944!! She wasn't able to tell me the price for this guitar but she was okay to sell it to me. So I did the price myself honestly and it was done. Yvonne, her first name, came back with the original case to pack it up, 'waouu that's my day boy!'. I was in this city to buy from a military surplus's guy a bunch of matched quartet brand new GEC KT88.

Beautiful finish on that one. I especially love the coloring and finish on the back.

Congratulations on a fine looking guitar.

__________________"Remember when we used to build cars in Flint and avoid drinking the water in Mexico? Now we're building cars in Mexico and not drinking the water in Flint. What the hell happened?"
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In fact for us, we can say that! Anyway, they are still a lot of treasures. I mean tubes for instance, since I'm searching good spots to take out of the nest some rarerities I still turning on military surplus, lot of stuff down there: tubes, tube testers, capacitors, resistors... Like eden for amp builders and tone chasers

Nice find !
It was amongst the last 200 Tokais made before Tokai declared bankruptcy and was produced
alongside a number of final run Tokai - Grandy LS models.
Tokai's bankruptcy is believed to have been partially caused by Fujigen being awarded
the contract to produce Fender Japan guitars that Tokai was initially slated to produce,
and the resurgence in popularity of Fender guitars in Japan.

Tokai continued to produce product line catalogs and there may have been
a trickle of guitars produced after 1985, with restructuring, but the first subsequent LS models
I've come across in years of browsing, were produced in 1989.

Nice find !
It was amongst the last 200 Tokais made before Tokai declared bankruptcy and was produced
alongside a number of final run Tokai - Grandy LS models.
Tokai's bankruptcy is believed to have been partially caused by Fujigen being awarded
the contract to produce Fender Japan guitars that Tokai was initially slated to produce,
and the resurgence in popularity of Fender guitars in Japan.

Thanks reborn old to share your knowledge, as far I read your topics for long time now I'm convinced that you're one of the finest 'connoisseur' about japanese's guitars

Thanks and yes I'm a little astonished after reading what reborn old said about this guitar. For sure I wasn't in this city by a mere chance
I've just played with her a couple of hours, and she rocks!!!